Famous Quotes & Sayings

I'm really trying to keep our team focused on what's in front of us. Knowing that we still have destiny in our control. We still have it in our hands.

B. F. Skinner

It's disappointing, but Chaparral tied, which bails us out a little bit. We still have our destiny in our hands. We just have to make sure we come out and play hard for 80 minutes, and things will be all right. We have a good team.

Serj Tankian

It was kind of luck or destiny that it ended up this way.

Olusegun Obasanjo

It is the destiny of us all to see this day.

David O. McKay

The two most important documents affecting the destiny of America are the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. Both these immortal papers relate primarily to the freedom of the individual.

Danny Boyle

For us, destiny always feels... if you obey, it's almost a passive thing.

Dag Hammarskjold

Destiny is something not to be desired and not to be avoided.

Dag Hammarskjold

Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.

Daisaku Ikeda

We are responsible for our own destiny. What matters is how we improve ourselves from this moment forward.

I must in the face of a storm, think, live and die as a king.

Jack Kent Cooke

Destiny demands you do better than your supposed best.

Isabel Allende

Each of us chooses the tone for telling his or her own story. I would like to choose the durable clarity of a platinum print, but nothing in my destiny possesses the luminosity. I live among diffuse shadings, veiled mysteries, uncertainties; the tone of telling my life is closer to that of a portrait in sepia.

Guru Nanak

By the destiny written upon their foreheads, they become truly unattached, and by reflective meditation, they are imbued with Truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We ought to face our destiny with courage.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The destiny of the human race is to widen the gap separating it from the lower races of animals. Any code of morality which retains its permanence and authority after the conditions of existence which gave rise to it have changed, works against this upward progress of man.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Give me today, for once, the worst throw of your dice, destiny. Today I transmute everything into gold.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Beware of spitting against the wind!

Freeman Dyson

The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence.

Erich Fromm

It seems that great minds a hundred years ago saw what would happen today or tomorrow, while we to whom it is happening blind ourselves in order not to be disturbed in our daily routine.

Before this one I told the girls that the rest of the season -- our destiny -- was in their hands. Let's hope this is a sign of our maturity.

Greg Graffin

If there is no destiny, there is no design. There's only life and death. My goal is to learn about life by living it, not by trying to figure out a cryptic plan that the Creator had in store for me.

Sow a thought, and you reap an act; Sow an act, and you reap a habit; Sow a habit, and you reap a character; Sow a character, and you reap a destiny

Sathya Baba

With effort and prayer destiny can be attained.  Start the effort.

Stan Smith

It might be one of those destiny things. At that point in time, I started thinking I'm going to be a PBA champion. That (thinking) made it difficult from there on in. I started hyperventilating.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

The grave is still the best shelter against the storms of destiny.

Gene Cernan

It's our destiny to explore. It's our destiny to be a space-faring nation.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it; it is the future that makes laws for our today.

George Washington

I am now . . . on a subject, which fills me with inexpressible concern . . . . But as it has been a kind of destiny, that has thrown me upon this service, I shall hope that my undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose.

George Washington

There is a Destiny which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest at last. Imagine that you are doing this but that it is essential and inevitable to torture to death only one tiny creature...in order to found that edifice on its unavenged tears. Would you consent to be the architect on those conditions? Tell me. Tell the truth.

Emma Bull

Coincidence is the word we use when we can't see the levers and pulleys.

Emma Bonino

Kosovo's destiny is clearly to join the European Union at some point.

Jasper Fforde

That's the thing about destiny: It can't be predicted, and it's usually pretty odd.